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The Oldest Rock Art In South America Is Far Older Than Was Thought
"After more than a decade of work, scientists from Argentina, Chile and the United States have successfully dated the Huenul 1 cave paintings in...
Ron DeSantis Is Now Backing Away From All The Book Bans He Helped Start...
"Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday came out in support of a proposal to limit book bans in schools. ... In a press conference, DeSantis...
Maine’s Portland Museum Of Art Lays Off More Than 10% Of Its Staff
"The 13 layoffs include salaried and hourly employees on (the) roughly 100-person staff. Front-line support staff … will not be impacted by staff reductions."...
Inside The Rural Alabama Radio Station Whose Entire Transmission Tower Was Stolen
"Many in Jasper, a city of about 14,000 (located) 40 miles northwest of Birmingham, fear the culprits have taken more than a heap of...
Verbier Festival Hires A Second CEO
Hervé Boissière, a former senior executive at Naïve Records who went on to found Medici.TV, where he is CEO, and who's also executive director...
Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson Has Dementia
Following the death of his wife last month, the 81-year-old pop legend has had two co-conservators appointed. He's described in court documents as "unable...
How To Get Broadway Out Of Its Winter Doldrums? Let Audience Members Ride The...
In the current staging, Sweeney's barbershop is above the stage; when he slits a customer's throat, he pulls a lever that sends the victim...
Remember When That Microsoft Chat-Bot Told A New York Times Writer It Loved Him...
Kevin Roose: "My column about the experience was probably the most consequential thing I’ll ever write — both in terms of the attention it...
CNN’s New Boss’s “Revolution”: Smaller Budgets And Slashed Salaries For Stars
"CNN boss Mark Thompson is looking to fund his digital-first transformation by cutting anchor salaries — currently more than $50 million — as he...
The Choreographer Who Came Up With Emma Stone’s Totally Insane Dance In “Poor Things”
Buenos Aires-born, Berlin-based dancemaker Constanza Macras also choreographed the warped courtly dance and the chase/fight in the woods in The Favourite. She says that...
Insurers Say The Biggest Danger To Museum Artworks Is — Well, Not Climate-Protesting Art...
It's "a scourge of selfie-takers backing into paintings and other objects. As many visitors are increasingly more interested in stunting for the ’gram than...
England’s Arts Funder Gives In To Backlash Against Its Warning About Grantees’ “Political Statements”
"A series of recent updates to (Arts Council England) policies … were met with fury from artists, writers and musicians. … Within hours, ACE...
And Who Has Swooped In To Buy Bankrupt Radio Giant Audacy? George Soros.
"(His) buyout of approximately $415 million of Audacy's debt would make his Soros Fund Management the largest stakeholder of the second-largest radio company in...
BBC Says It Has “Secured The Future” Of The BBC Singers
Last year, public outrage caused the broadcaster to abandon its plan to dissolve the 20-member BBC Singers. Now the network has announced a partnership...
National Book Awards Extends Eligibility To Non-US Citizens
"The change will affect prizes for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature to begin including authors 'who maintain their primary, long-term home in...
English National Opera’s Orchestra Ends Its Strike Threat
All labor action planned for February has been called off as the company and the Musicians' Union have come to a revised agreement about...
With Las Vegas Philharmonic Between Music Directors, Leonard Slatkin Will Fill In
Donato Cabrera ends his 10-year term as the orchestra's music director this summer; with no successor yet appointed, Slatkin will serve as Artistic Consultant....
How Hard Is It To Make Animated Characters Cry? Let The Animators Tell You
"Heaving sobs and effervescent teardrops are the result of the exacting labor of artists who must precisely illustrate, iterate on, time, and log their...
Another San Francisco Theater Has To Do An Emergency Donate-Or-We-Close-Down Campaign
"Cutting Ball Theater, the 25-year-old company known for form-breaking new plays and rejuvenated classics, ... says it needs to raise $45,000 by March 1...
Meet The Mother Of Contemporary African Dance
"Germaine Acogny studied dance at the École Simon-Siégel in Paris. She was the only black student (there) and a teacher criticised her 'big butt...
Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyers Appeal His Rape Conviction Before New York State’s Highest Court
The basis of the appeal is that the trial judge should not have allowed testimony from three other women whose alleged assaults by Weinstein...
A Schubert Jukebox Opera? Yep.
"Jukebox" opera was hardly unknown in centuries past; it was called pasticcio. And while Schubert was a master of vocal music, his operas are...
13th-Century Fresco By Cimabue Has Been Restored And Revealed
The painting, in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, is of the Madonna and Child with angels and St. Francis himself. The project...
OMG, Looks Like The Saudis Have Actually Started Construction On That 100-Mile-Long Building
Many onlookers have been skeptical that The Line, Prince Muhammad bin Salman's planned glass-clad behemoth 170 kilometers long, 1,640 feet tall and only 660...
Here’s One American Newspaper That’s Actually Making Money With A New, Free (!) Print...
This past September, Deseret News, the Salt Lake City daily owned and operated by the Mormon church, launched The Digest, a monthly compendium of...